BACKGROUND

Placental mesenchymal dysplasia is a rare disease of the placenta which presents with vesicles in the form of a cluster of grapes on ultrasound. It can cause pregnancy complications such as: intrauterine growth restriction, intrauterine death, and preterm birth

CLINICAL CASE

A 31-year-old patient with placental mesenchymal dysplacia diagnosed on the ultrasound of the first trimester of pregnancy, in which an area with 14 x 20 mm econegative formations was observed with little uptake of the color Doppler and which was confirmed in the second trimester by corial biopsy of that area. The pregnancy was normal until week 33, after which an intrauterine growth restriction was detected. Due to the high incidence of obstetric complications of this entity, an induction of labor was decided at week 37 of gestation.

CONCLUSIONS

Whenever this type of pathology is diagnosed, it is recommended a close follow-up of pregnancy and an induction of labor around 37-38 weeks of gestation, due to the perinatal complications presents.